"An injunction is extremely unlikely," argued Michael Carrier, a professor at Rutgers Law School. It will now be up to Judge Koh to decide whether a sales ban is warranted, though legal experts deem that unlikely. Apple is seeking to ban sales of several Samsung phones, including the Galaxy S III, and sought just over $2 billion in damages. The current case involves five Apple patents that were not in the 2012 trial and that cover iPhone features such as slide-to-unlock and search technology.
It has so far failed to do so, and this case won't get it any closer." "Apple launched this litigation campaign years ago with aspirations of slowing the meteoric rise of Android phone manufacturers.
This amount is less than 10 percent of the amount Apple requested, and probably doesn't surpass by too much the amount Apple spent litigating this case," said Brian Love, assistant professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law.
"Though this verdict is large by normal standards, it is hard to view this outcome as much of a victory for Apple. Samsung was by far the largest adopter of the operating platform. Some industry observers see the ongoing legal dispute as an attempt by Apple to curtail the rapid growth of phones based on Google Inc's rival Android software. Jurors awarded the iPhone maker about $930 million after a 2012 trial in San Jose, but Apple failed to persuade US District Judge Lucy Koh to issue a permanent injunction against the sale of Samsung phones in the United States. On Friday, the jury found the South Korean smartphone maker had infringed two Apple patents.Īpple and Samsung have been litigating around the world for three years.
During the month-long trial in a San Jose, California, federal court, Apple accused Samsung of violating patents on smartphone features including universal search, while Samsung denied wrongdoing.
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